• UCLA Library Data Archives: who we are and what we do
• How to search for and access data for research
• Resources, tools and support available to students at UCLA
• Publishing and Data Management Plans

1120 Rolfe Hall

https://www.library.ucla.edu/location/social-science-data-archive

The Data Archive provides data services that are tied to the data life-cycle.

"Data archiving is a process, not an end state where data is simply turned over to a repository at the conclusion of a study. Rather, data archiving should begin early in a project and incorporate a schedule for depositing products over the course of a project’s life cycle and for the creation and preservation of accurate metadata, ensuring the usability of the research data itself. Such practices would incorporate archiving as part of the research method." Preserving Research Data, Jacobs and Humphrey (2004)

illustration: DatOne Data Life Cycle

illustration: DatOne Data Life Cycle

https://www.library.ucla.edu/location/social-science-data-archive/data-services

• UCLA Library Data Archive
• Colleagues
• Public media (newspapers, news)
• Social media (twitter, etc)
• Scholarly literature
• Government reports and documents
• Archives and project websites
• Codebooks, questionnaires
• Exploration of datasets

• ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
• UCLA Library Data Archive Catalog: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ssda_ucla
• Government Sites, Census Data: https://www.census.gov/
• IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series): https://www.ipums.org/
• Public Policy Institute of CA: www.ppic.org
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research): http://www.nber.org/data/
• CDC/NCHS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/surveys.htm
• Pew Research Center: http://www.pewresearch.org/
• Data.gov: https://www.data.gov/
• World Health Organization
• International Monetary Fund

• General to specific; broad to narrow
• Names of investigators; names of studies
• Studies described in literature, news and websites

illustration: define your research

• Raw data are not eye-readable
• To decipher data you will use Questionnaires and Codebooks

illustration: Raw Data

• A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents.

• Questionnaires cover separate topics such as:
  • Preferences (e.g. political party)
  • Behaviors (e.g. food consumption)
  • Facts (e.g. gender)
• Questionnaires can include indexes or scales:
  • Latent traits (e.g. personality traits)
  • Attitudes (e.g. towards immigration)
  • An index (e.g. Social Economic Status)

illustration: Questionnaire ABC New Poll

• An overview of the study or dataset
• Variable names and descriptions
• Column locations (mostly this is for raw data)

May also include:

• Test of questions if the data comes from a survey
• Example of the Questionnaire
• Detail on who responded to the survey

illustration: codebook #2

illustration: Codebook and Raw Data

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

illustration: ICPSR

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR

illustration: ICPSR Register

illustration: ICPSR Search by Topics

illustration: ICPSR Search for and Compare Variables

illustration: ICPSR Compare Variables

illustration: ICPSR Study Page and Data#1

illustration: ICPSR Reading About Data

illustration: ICPSR Publications linked to Data

illustration: ICPSR Publications Linked to Data

A data management plan is a document that describes what you will do with your data during your research and after you complete your research.

• Funding Agencies
• Publishing https://dataden.library.ucla.edu/jspui/ ORCID:https://orcid.org/
• Sharing and Archiving Data
• Regardless of the requirements, good data management is an essential skill for researchers.

• Data Archive
• ICPSR

illustration: Questions

1120-H Rolfe
ucla-data-archive@googlegroups.com
310-825-0716

Tim Dennis, Director of the Data Archive
Jamie Jamison, Archive Staff